Top three finishers lead the Memphis Symphony Orchestra
"The Hong Kong-born conductor gave the grand composition a stately interpretation, especially attentive to detail and purpose. But Lam was not so serious as to lose any excitement in the piece. He rocked, stomped and jumped on the podium to bring this portrait of America to a rousing conclusion."
-- Jon W. Sparks, GoMemphis
Ken Lam conducts Brevard Sinfonia in Triumphant Finale
"Ken Lam, who is Resident Conductor at the [Brevard Music] Center, is one of the most exciting conductors I’ve seen. He is both elegantly poised and sophisticated and viscerally connected to the music, clearly communicating elements of style as well as cues. It must be thrilling to perform under his direction... This crowd couldn’t get enough, the ovation calling Lam to return to the stage four times. Bravi tutti, especially all wind and brass players. What a performance!"
-- Laura McDowell, CVNC
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Ken Lam wins the Memphis Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Competition
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Ken Lam conducting the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at the Memphis Symphony Orchestra International
Competition in May 2011 (photo: Julienne Kopel)
CSO/CSYO Joint Concert May 11, 2011 Music Hall, Cincinnati
"The concert opened with “Finlandia.” With the full CSO and CSYO, it was a powerful and deeply moving reading that Lam made his own. There was nothing cliché about it, just majesty and dignity."
-- Mary Ellyn Hutton, Music in Cincinnati
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Massenet Manon with Peabody Opera and Peabody Symphony Orchestra
November 18-21, 2010
"Ken Lam conducted with a telling sweep, but allowed the gentlest side of the music to shimmer... All in all, I'd rank this among the best Peabody Opera ventures, overall, of the past decade."
--- Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun
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J Strauss II Die Fledermaus with Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center
June 8-9, 2010
"Especially noteworthy was Lam’s grasp of the performance style of this most Viennese of music. His rubati and other subtleties of tempo modification were sophisticated and so musical — in them one could easily hear Straussian echos of the annual New Year’s Day broadcast from Vienna’s famous Musikverein hall."
--- Laura McDowell, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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